Re: Can anybody explain to me what spam-free web-based newsreading is ?

SPAM is unwanted email

it usually comes from rotten sales people that roam the newsgroups for their target audience and then start sending unwanted advertisements to you. It really is a nuicense. One way to try and get around being spammed is to change your return to addresses, like joe_at_compu.net might be changed to

    joe&AT&compu_1234_DOT com

most people that are real interested will be able to figure out what the original email is. It is however hard to create a prgram to remove all of that junk.

many people dont put a valid return address at all.

Here is a not so funny article on the problem that AOL is having with spam (scroll down)
http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/thesite/news/news_101097.html

basically if you search altavista <http://www.altavista.digital.com> with a searchstring like this:

        +"spam wars" +AOL
you'll get alot of matches.

"Spam free" is a selling point for mail servers. This means that the server will not allow a foreign users to send any mail messages.

Tomas CIRIP wrote in message <353d5bc9.41010944_at_nntp.uunet.ca>...
>Hi All,
>
>I was looking for word spam in more dictionaries without any success.
>Can anybody tell me what spam-free or SPAM is at all ?
>
Received on Wed Apr 22 1998 - 15:16:03 CEST